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Re: one-line programs



N.N. Thayer wrote:
On Jan 31, 5:25 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
Harry Potter wrote:
On Jan 31, 11:47 am, lyricalnanoha
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Ammammata wrote:
hello (this is my first post on this ng)
several years ago... it was 1980-something, I ran on the apple (and later on
other computers) some nice one-line programs, written in basic, typically
games
the line was of course quite long, with several statements
anyone remember this?
The disk "Silicon Salad" has a slew of two-liners...
-uso.
The OP piqued my interest!  Where can I find these?
IIRC, Nibble published these by the hundreds, though most of them were
not really "games", but demonstrations.  There were even books of
one-liners published!

I uploaded some to Asimov last year:

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/magazines/nibble/Nibble%20Magazine%20One-Two%20Line%20Contest%20Collection.dsk

Thanks for posting that--I couldn't remember the reference.

-michael

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